Xiao Bai was extremely angry, and for him who rarely raised his voice at anyone. Much less losing his anger, it was quite serious. 

"Xiao Mei, are you asking me to punish you? Do you want to experience the consequences of uttering such words?" 

Xiao Mei just shrugged her shoulders and laughed it off. "Mr Bai, a little punishment ain't gonna kill me. How worse can the consequences be?"

"I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it!!" Xiao Bai berates Xiao Mei. Did this woman think that this was a joke? Because if so, no one was laughing. Have such treacherous thoughts of boss Huang... She needed to be taught a lesson!

Xiao Mei smiled smugly, "hmph! Why should I care? You're just a B rank fighter, do you even have the authority to punish me?" There was a pause of silence once again. The temperature in the room suddenly dropped down several times over.

The atmosphere around Xiao Bai became deadly cold. It was as if he was a huge iceberg about to collapse and fall and crush everything to death! 

When An Xue Lin saw this, she knew that Xiao Bai was an inch away from lashing out at Xiao Mei. She had to intervene this time, no matter what the consequence! 

Xiao Mei was her friend and as a friend, she had to look out for her and get her out of any kind situation. 

However, the moment An Xue Lin gathered up her courage to speak up, Xiao Bai bellowed in a vicious tone, "do you know your sins? First! You disrespected the boss and held her name with contempt. Secondly! You audaciously announced in front of everyone in this room that you want a coup d'tat! And Lastly! You look down upon your superiors and insult their authority!! Do you know the punishment for these three offences?!"

Three offences!!

Xiao Mei was doomed for sure! It wasn't even long before Xiao Mei confronted boss Huang. And now with a span of a single day, she has committed three offences. She broke two rules and declared to dethrone the boss. She even offended Xiao Bai! 

The crowd felt pity for her anymore. 

Xiao Mei was done for.

Everyone knew the consequence of those three offences. They couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.

'You reap you sow' they all thought in unison. 

"For the three offences that you have committed, your punishments are! Two hundred whip slashes! Forty-five knife slashes and breaking three of your limbs!!" 

Xiao Mei's eyes widen her mouth agape. She was too shocked. Wasn't that just a little too much? The punishment was no different than beating her to death!

"Mr Bai don't you think you're being too unreasonable?! That is way too much of a punishment!" Xiao Mei screams out in anger. Xiao Bai sneers at Xiao Mei. He couldn't help but think 'this woman is really thick-headed'. 

He had met all kinds of people but never has he met one so thin-skinned like her.

Everyone thought the same.

She was so arrogant before, now she is complaining that the punishment is unreasonable? Did it even make any sense? 

She brought this on herself, so she should just take it as it is! 

"Brother Bai! Please let her off just this once!" The voice echoed across the lobby. Everyone turned to the direction where the voice came from.

It was none other than An Xue Lin. "What?" Xiao Bai gave her a cold look and sneered, "let her off? An Xue Lin. Are you messing with me? Why the hell should I let her off?" 

An Xue Lin quivered at Xiao Bai's ice-cold stare. Gulping down on her saliva, she answers, "Xiao Mei is impulsive and doesn't know how to hold back. Also, she's still very new to the rule of the gang! So please give her a lighter punishment!!"

Hah? Xiao Mei looked at An Xue Lin, she was very displeased by what An Xue Lin had just said. Why did she beg for lighter punishment? She should have begged for there to be no punishment! What a useless girl! 

If people knew what Xiao Mei was thinking right now, they would all want to beat up her with an inch of her life. Such thinking was very shameless and brazen. 

One really wondered how the nice and sweet An Xue Lin became friends with such a shameless person. 

Xiao Bai sighed heavily, "An Xue Lin. You better back off right this instant." He shot her a warning look, "I'm not in the mood for one of your heroic deeds." 

After saying his piece, he looked towards the direction of Xiao Mei. "Now. Xiao Mei. You will receive your due punishment once we go back to Shanghai city." After saying this Xiao Bai turned his back Xiao Mei and walked away.

It was finally over is what everyone thought. 

Xiao Mei laughed slowly, she viciously glared at the back that was walking away from her.

She wanted to retort back, but she knew that if she did. Her punishment would only increase. And she didn't want to die from punishment either. 

An Xue Lin ran over towards Xiao Mei and grabbed onto her hand. She asked with a worried voice, "Xiao Mei why did you do that? Don't you know that what you've done is serious?"

There was a bundle of questions An Xue Lin wanted to say to Xiao Mei. It took all her might not shoot all those questions at her friend for she failed she would get yelled at.

"Leave me alone." Xiao Mei spat out those three words then slapped An Xue Lin's hand away. "Don't act so close to me." She scowled at An Xue Lin then walked away out of the lobby. 

An Xue Lin sadly watched Xiao Mei walk away. She bit on her lower lip and tightly grabbed onto her shirt a tear trickled down her cheek. All she wanted to do was help. But instead, she made it even worse and now Xiao Mei was mad at her.

The others who had seen the scene just now clicked their tongues. 

"That Xiao Mei is really ungrateful! An Xue Lin just wanted to help! Why slap away her hand and tell her to get lost for?"

"She has no manners at all! Hah, how did such a person get into our gang in the first place?"

"Yeah. That's really strange don't you think? I'm pretty sure there was no newbie in the last six months."

"Ah let's stop discussing that. The question is, when are we going to eat?!"

The crowd began happily discussing amongst themselves once Xiao Mei had left the lobby. 

The only one who didn't feel happy was An Xue Lin.